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Megrahi
Just watching police escort for Magrahi. Why don't they just chuck him out the door and let him take his chances and find his own way to the airport. I saw what happened at Lockerbie.End of rant no point in saying anymore.Hope someone shoots him and he suffers a long and lingering death.
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Don't be fooled by the 'compassionate grounds' reason for his release.
He is almost certainly innocent, and had lodged an appeal. The Government desperately did not want the appeal to take place because of what it would reveal.
Libyan coughed up to this crime to be reaccepted back into the International community because it had become a pyrrha state and put on the 'Axis of Evil'. Admitting to Lockerbie, even though they had nothing to do with it, quickly facilitated their rehabilitation. Another country (probably Iran) was responsible.
He is almost certainly innocent, and had lodged an appeal. The Government desperately did not want the appeal to take place because of what it would reveal.
Libyan coughed up to this crime to be reaccepted back into the International community because it had become a pyrrha state and put on the 'Axis of Evil'. Admitting to Lockerbie, even though they had nothing to do with it, quickly facilitated their rehabilitation. Another country (probably Iran) was responsible.
shiznit
Yes I believe that, but more importantly, many families of his victims also believe that Magrahi is innocent.
The most vocal, Dr Jim Swire, who lost his daughter in the tragedy, is a campaigner for the truth about Lockerbie, and he too believes that Magrahi was not responsible for all those deaths.
http://www.lockerbietruth.com/
Yes I believe that, but more importantly, many families of his victims also believe that Magrahi is innocent.
The most vocal, Dr Jim Swire, who lost his daughter in the tragedy, is a campaigner for the truth about Lockerbie, and he too believes that Magrahi was not responsible for all those deaths.
http://www.lockerbietruth.com/
I agree with Gromit and with Jim Swire. Mr Magrahi always seemed a little too convenient a perpetrator, given that there was such a long gap between the event and his eventual conviction, during which time Libya was 'out in the cold'. I've always held the belief that their refusal to 'give up' someone for the crime was because they didn't actually have anyone to give up. Then , suddenly, surpise, surprise, Ghadaffi's no longer persona non grata with the western world and there's a convenient scapegoat. I've always suspected that there were massive covert machinations behind the scenes, as well as those overt ones that were televised and reported on at the time. After all, we and the Americans were baying for blood and for someone to atone for the crime and it didn't really matter who we got, as long as someone was prepared to take the fall for it. I wondered at the time what sort of deal Mr Magrahi did with both our and his government and what he personally got out of it. Why else would you let yourself be put in the frame?
It doesn't matter what people believe it's the result of a court verdict that counts.
You can't go around letting people out because there's a general perception that someone was innocent - that's what a court of appeal is for.
It should be done in the open.
If it's a deal with Lybia like the IRA one that should be public, if it's an unsafe coviction ditto.
So we have to take it at face value of compassionate grounds.
Personally I think he should be returned to a Lybian gaol
You can't go around letting people out because there's a general perception that someone was innocent - that's what a court of appeal is for.
It should be done in the open.
If it's a deal with Lybia like the IRA one that should be public, if it's an unsafe coviction ditto.
So we have to take it at face value of compassionate grounds.
Personally I think he should be returned to a Lybian gaol
Again, I agree with Gromit. It pays to have a broad, rather than a polarised view of world affairs at any given time and to be able to see events happening not in isolation, but in a wider context. Whilst it's very easy to react with one's heart and emotions to an event of magnitude and, let's face it, that is how pretty much everyone does react at the time, often other things happening in other part of the world impact on the same situation. The situation in the Middle and Far East has to be looked at as a whole, not as a series of isolated incidents. There are always machinations within machinations and it pays to have a bit of background historical and political information before going off on a rant.
